Joshua 9:1,2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

Reader! observe, how all nations unite against Israel. No doubt, the Hittite and the Amorite, had their jealousies and struggles one among another for preeminence, as well as other people; but, yet there is but one common cause among them, when the Lord's people are the object. Was it not so in after ages, when the Lord of his people himself, was brought before Herod and Pilate. Foes as they had been to each other, yet when Jesus and his cause comes in view, the same day they are made friends together. Luke 23:12. Is it not so now? Are not all the parties of sin confederates against Jesus? Psalms 83:2.

Joshua 9:1-2

1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.a